NOWNESS.com continues its 12 Days of Christmas series with decadent jewels for a creative take on the 5th day of Christmas’ 5 golden rings. Photographer Andy Bettles and stylist Lauren Goodman sampled from collections of Dior, Buccellati, Alexander McQueen, Thakoon and others to create five extraordinary jeweled creations.

Snejena Onopka wears boyfriend fit checkered shirt and mixed with jeans, oversize sweater, sporty sneakers and lots of denim, with a feminine look of loose hair, delicate bracelets and an understated makeup for an editorial 'Back to Basics' in the January 2011 Issue of Cover Magazine, with photography by Andreas Öhlund and styled by Emelie Johansson.

Tom Ford’s triumphant return to fashion communicates a simple message: iconic women in iconic clothes. Julia Restoin Roitfeld slips into ford’s high-glam Spring collection for a series of self-portraits and a conversation with the designer himself

Photography by Julia Restoin Roitfeld

A lot has happened in the five years since Tom Ford exited women’s fashion. The economy went belly-up, leaving designers scrambling to reconcile luxury with covetability. Globalization exploded and forced houses to rethink their business models with emerging markets in mind. And in an increasingly plugged-in universe, fashion-world blips and sound-bites made headline news. In spite of it all, however, Ford just wants to have fun—and he made that crystal clear with his Spring/Summer 2011 collection, shown in New York last September to a select few editors and with a runway cast that included superstars like Beyoncé and Marisa Berenson, iconic faces like Stella Tennant and Carolyn Murphy, and muses like Julia Restoin Roitfeld. The show, featuring idealized visions of the kind of louche ’70s glamour Ford first defined at Gucci a decade ago, delighted editors with its forthright desire to make women look and feel beautiful—which, as the designer explains, was precisely his goal. Here, he speaks with Roitfeld about the inspiration and the women.

JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD What made you decide that this was the season to return to fashion?

TOM FORD I told myself that I would not come back to women’s fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer’s needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one’s quality of life.

JRR What inspired your collection?

TF Real clothes for real women. I want to concentrate on my real customer. That’s why I showed idealized versions of her—different women of different ages. It was about individuality, different body types, women who have their own style.

JRR What do you think fashion needs more of right now?

TF Spontaneity. Fashion needs to be more fun.

JRR What personality traits does the Tom Ford woman possess?

TF My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

JRR What is your favorite piece from the collection?

TF I love every piece. That is like asking someone which one of their children is their favorite.

JRR Outside fashion, what are you looking forward to this spring?

TF I have to say more fashion. I love what I am doing right now and can’t wait to start the next collection.

JRR What was the last thing that made you laugh?

TF I laugh a good bit so that is a hard question. I suppose a phone call I just had with Richard [Buckley] five minutes ago made me laugh pretty hard. He has a wicked sense of humor

JRR What’s your New Year’s resolution?

TF I don’t have one. I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.

Stefano Pilati has new supermodel in the making as his new muse Arizona Muse pose in the gardens of Bled Roknine, a Thirties-style villa in Marrakech, for photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Muse, who replaces Daria Werbowy as the face of the brand.

Underground
'Fashion Sub-Terra' is the first of many Indie Fashion Shows that will meet the
silver screen in 2011. Here is a glimpse of what may be the first Fashion Show
to ever be witnessed in a Cave.

Returning
to London are Temperley London and heritage British brand Aquascutum. Labels
making their LFW debut include J. JS Lee and Les Chiffoniers. They will join
current LFW catwalk designers includingAntonio Berardi, Burberry Prorsum,
Jonathan Saunders, Matthew Williamson and Pringle of Scotland, as well as BFC
NEWGEN sponsored by Topshop talents.

Jessica Stam becomes Faye Dunaway in 'Eyes of Laura Mars' from 197, styled and poses in the manner of the era and film, Laura Mars a fashion photographer whom can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes.

Terry Richardson shoots Hits From the Collections of spring/summer for US Harpers Bazaar modelled by the gorgeous Lily Donaldson as she goes wild in designer fresh take on the classics occasionally posing with wild animals; wearing all the top designers Lanvin, Burberry, Valentino, Chanel adn many others to showcase the trends such as Sexy chic, Statment Dresses, Trench coat, 70's knit, Glamour, Creams, and California cool.

The Hollywood Artist and the Jak & Jil Blogger Trawl LA for Vintage Gold for NOWNESS.com; go on a vintage shopping spree with the street fashion blogger Tommy Ton of jakandjil.com and author, filmmaker and fashion historian Liz Goldwyn. We asked Tommy Ton to capture Goldwyn on the hunt at the Current Affair Pop-Up Vintage Marketplace she hosted in LA. We also spoke with the Hollywood artist about fashion tips and her upcoming documentary and book on burlesque’s golden years Pretty Things.

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